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When DCI Matilda Darke receives a mysterious telephone call, she immediately dismisses the threat. After all, the Homicide and Major Enquiries team are a regular target for prank calls. But ignoring this warning might soon be the biggest regret of Matilda Darke’s life. A lone gunman is on a deadly rampage around Sheffield, leaving a bloody trail in his wake. Taking his shots with a sickening precision, he’s about to leave his mark on the world and change Matilda and her team’s lives forever.

The trial of notorious gangland boss, Elrit Selmani, is about to start but the star witness has gone missing. Without Derrick Morris' testimony, the killer will walk free. Detective Inspector Simon Wise and his Murder Investigation Team must race against the clock to find Morris before Selmani's gang do — except not everyone on Wise's team wants to find the man alive. Can Wise find Morris in time or will a deadly killer go free?

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Running Blind by M.J. Arlidge, read by Grace Saif. New to the police force, WPC Helen Grace is assigned to her first clear-cut case. Sure there's something sinister beneath the surface, Helen has a bad feeling . . . but who's...

The assignment begins with a simple errand - a parcel to deliver. But to Alan Stewart, standing on a deserted road in Iceland with a murdered man at his feet, it looks anything but simple. The desolate terrain is obstacle enough. But when Stewart realises he has been double-crossed and that the opposition is gaining ground, his simple mission seems impossible....

After battling through the early years of his comeback as a jump jockey, Eddie Malloy seems, at last, to be back on the road to the top. Multi-millionaire businessma, Broga Cates has hired Eddie to ride his string of horses, and Eddie is full of hope. But fate has other plans.

Twenty years ago, in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas, Annie Randall took her dog for a walk. The dog returned. Annie did not. When her body was found, cruelly broken and posed like a runner, there was only ever one suspect: Annie’s husband, Frank. Now he’s served his time and come home–but the locals won’t let him forget. Especially when there’s a new ‘running girl’ murder…

Junior Agent Nash Running Bear may be a baller on the baseball mound, but the stir on Capitol Hill over her actions on the field means she needs to be taken down a notch. The deputy director has no choice but to send her out to the fuzzy belly button of the mid-west. A bank has been suffering massive cash shrinkage from its vault, and nobody can figure it out.

Shaken by PTSD from a traumatic case, brilliant FBI Agent Sage West recovers in a psychiatric clinic tucked away in the vast Midwest farmlands—when a local case demands his expertise, and local cops need his help before a killer strikes again....

Ex-cop Luther Malone-member of a very secret paranormal society-and Grace Renquist, quirky librarian, are a strange partnership. Grace has been hired as an aura-reading consultant in the quest for a murder suspect, but has zero field experience. Her bodyguard, Luther, walks with a cane and isn't good with a gun! So the last thing they expect is for romantic sparks to fly between them at their hotel in Maui, where they're posing as honeymooners.

Every step might be your last… From the No.1 bestselling author of The Perfect Couple and The Vanishing of Class 3B comes an addictive thriller for 2026! Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell and Freida McFadden! On a bright spring Saturday, hundreds gather in a park as usual for their weekly...

Mike Nash is away on compassionate leave, but that doesn't mean the criminals are going to take a break. Detective Clara Mironova and the Helmsdale team face a sudden increase in crime. Minor offences ranging from theft, shoplifting, and poaching, pale into insignificance when a violent turf war breaks out between rival drugs gangs.

Nick Rice knows someone is after him. He doesn’t know who, and he doesn’t know why. Efforts to determine both are unsuccessful. This morning, during his daily run, he concocts a sure-fire solution. For the first time in weeks, he relaxes. St. Paul investigators Pete Culnane and Martin Tierney must determine if a horrific crash on Wheelock Parkway was accidental or deliberate. Their step-by-step investigation uncovers secrets that leave more than one person running scared.

FBI Special Agent Nash Running Bear returns to her hometown after a skeleton turns up in the local creek on reservation land. Old racial slights and hatred for outsiders don't make looking for more bones any easier...nor does the appearance of an old high school fling.

An old buddy reaches out to Nash from the other side, through her spirit world. He's desperate for her help to track down his granddaughter. Nash, not fully convinced it wasn't just a figment of her sleep-deprived mind, initiates a deep dive in the dead of night. But this time, it was bypassing her usual routes. The Feds have her back on New Mexico soil with an armored truck heist mission, but it's got a devilish twist. All leads hit dead ends, unraveling into events she never saw coming. The heist reeks of terrorist tactics—too much like another sandbox in her past.

Army Ranger-turned-FBI Agent Beth Drake is the perfect agent to handle violent serial murders connected to drug crimes. But when the glittering lights of Las Vegas cast shadows on a sinister game of death, it's up to Beth Drake to unravel the truth behind the fatal hallucinations of high-stakes gamblers. As victims succumb to their wildest wins turned deadly dreams, Beth must place her bets wisely to outsmart a killer with a penchant for the ultimate gamble—life itself.

Still recovering from the traumatic events of the past year, newlyweds Aggie Malone, police chief of Dogleg Island, and Deputy Sheriff Ryan Grady are looking forward to a casual day trip to Wild Horse Island, a nearby nature preserve, with their precocious - and uncannily perceptive - border collie, Flash. But when Flash discovers a body in a shallow grave on the island, and Aggie and Ryan learn of an attack on the park ranger, a tangled knot of conspiracy, murder and deception begins to unfold.

When someone threatens a congressman's family and career, he seeks the FBI's best. They give Special Agent Nash Running Bear no choice. She scoffs at the babysitting job in the high desert of New Mexico, but it becomes a deadly game of cat and mouse. And the cats are four international assassins. So to get the job done, Nash reaches out to her alphabet team. Hopefully, in time…

A shooting in New York is a daily occurrence—unless it's an upscale elderly woman in a high-end car. Then maybe not daily. Nash is taking care of other business, like presenting a class at Quantico for Women in Federal Law Enforcement group members. The lessons taught take on extra meaning when another killing is brought up. This one is rural in Upstate New York. And it wasn't a hunting accident.

Nash is okay with things staying simple and small-town, until the person of interest shows up in a city of seven million, with old friends and older scores to settle. And then the war begins.

Fort Mojave, CA—Ft. Mojave citizens woke horrified this morning to learn that they discovered nineteen bodies in a nearby compound. The alleged victims are possibly members of a religious cult known for mass suicides. Investigations are ongoing. FBI Agent Nash Running Bear has more important things to focus on than the daily media frenzy. That is, until her work takes her to Fort Mojave, and an anonymous caller on a talk radio, claims that what appears to be a suicide pact is actually something much worse—a mass murder.